Impact Global Location: Eritrea

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Summary of the impact

Through training courses, briefings and written reports, Justin
Willis and Chris Vaughan have influenced policy-making and
contributed to professional development in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DfID), and
Ministry of Defence (MoD), as well as other governments. They have had
similar impacts on NGOs and multilateral bodies, including the African
Union and agencies of the United Nations. In so doing, they have
contributed to innovation and entrepreneurial activity through the
expansion of a non-governmental organisation, the Rift Valley Institute
(RVI).

Summary of the impact

In 2011, Eritrea was the world's ninth largest source country of refugees
just after Somalia. Fleeing
a repressive regime whose human rights violations include indefinite
conscription, religious
persecution and widespread detention and torture, thousands of Eritrean
refugees apply for asylum
each year. Professor Richard Reid's research on the historical and current
political dynamics in
Eritrea and the Horn of Africa, in addition to influencing government
policy, has proved
indispensable to human rights advocates working in the region, and to
those in Europe, North
America and beyond, making daily decisions relating to the asylum claims
of ethnic Eritreans.

Summary of the impact

Professor Mark Duffield's research on the relationship between
development and security has
had a significant impact on the understandings and work of practitioners
in many agencies
worldwide, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), Médecins
sans Frontières (MSF), the UK Department for International Development
(DfID), the Norwegian
Refugee Council (NRC), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the
non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) Independent Diplomat in South Sudan and the Enough
Project against
genocide and other crimes against humanity.

Submitting Institution

University of Bristol

Unit of Assessment

Politics and International Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration, Political Science